St. Landry democrat., 1887-11-26
terly. Harry had taken her at her word
She would see him no mOrei All how

terly. Harry had taken her at her word
She would see him no morel All how
keenlv she reproached herself!
In that plight her uncle found her.
! The obscurity of the room prevented
his seeing at first that she was weep
ing. Come, Solita," he said, my
esteemed friend. Don Timoteo Marucca,
the minister of Fomento, has come to
pay his respects to you Come, my
child, and-why, you are crying Tut-tut,
| little bird, this will not do. | want you
to look your very best. Dry your tears"
"To come out and entertain that ridic-
ulous, self. conceited old monkey! No.
He isn't a monkey. He is worse than
monkey, for he can talk, and does. |
| hate him. And | won't come out"
"Oh. of course, if you have headache
you can't see him.
"But | haven't headache 1t isn't
| that. | just won't see him. That's it,
Nevertheless, for practical social pur-
poses, my dear child, you have very Sc
we're headache" replied the old gentleman
| blandIv, and he went out to express to
his i(nd his regrets for his niece's in
disposition. At the same time as he re-
Elected that he would rather not have
Harry 90 away until he had arrived at
clearer understanding of the situation,
he said to him:
81 find that have mislaid those papers
and will not be able to give them to you
| to-day. You will have time enough to
go down to La Guayra after the dinner
tomorrow, or even in the cool OF the
next morning SO we will have our
Thanksgiving dinner together after all"
Harry heard him through with dull
and wretched resignation, and went
aWav with few words in reply.
Don Timoteo also soon took his de-
parture after many orotund and gran
diose Spanish speeches, the gist of which
was that he was overwhelmed and pros
trated with sorrowful sympathy for the
lovely senorita in her indisposition, and
that he would be quite heart-broken If
the next morning he did not receive
assurance of her recovery, etc, etc.
But he was q good deal more over
whelmed and Frustrated when he
reached his home by letter he found
awaiting him there, nothing less than
peremptory demand from the chief ex-
ecutive for his resignation of the office
of minister of FomentO. He was as
founded. Could it be possible that the
administration would attempt to get
along without him?
Senior Campos, too, had what the
French call "a bad quarter of an hour"
that evening, for Solita, in sheer des-
peration, made clean breast of every
thing to him, telling him how much she
loved Harry; that she couldn't and
wouldn't live without him; that she
would never marry another man, etc, etc.
The indications that night for genu
inc satisfactory bases of thankfulness
at the morrow's Thanksgiving feast
were not good. Don Timoteo CRASHED
his false teeth when he thought of a
Thanksgiving feast-for he was an in
vited guest-to celebrate his removal
from the ministry. Senior Campos had
nothing to be thankful for in the de-
struction of his plans for marriage
that would bury all remembrance Of his
suspected share in the latest revolution.
Solita, with heavy heart. asked herself
what she would ever have to be thankful
for if Harry were to be taken from her.
Harry thought of the dinner with aver
sion as a cruel mockery, and wished